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Re: Form population and locale

uni

2007-01-17

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Hi,

> I use Struts 1.2.9 and I would like to know if there is any
> way to link the user locale (available with
> RequestUtils.getUserLocale(HttRequest)) with the form
> population process.
>
> In fact, I have many forms which have date field (with the
> java.util.Date type). I would format these fields according
> to the user locale (ie. "yyyy/MM/dd" for english users and
> "dd/MM/yyyy" for french users). Also, I would like that the
> automatic form population do the same thing.

I had the same problem but found that the support of Struts (at least version
1.x) is quite poor for this issue. I have a workaround by populating the form
beans using BeanUtils and registering the LocaleConverters before. So, I'd
suggest to take a look at the commons-beanutils package...

Cheers,

Thorsten



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